Introduction; 1. Military state-building in war and peace; 2. Rites of purification, rites of memory; 3. Managing the public sphere; 4. The pedagogy of patriotism; 5. State-building in gendered perspective; 6. The Prussian state recast in 1918; Conclusion.
An investigation into why the creation of nation-states coincided with bouts of civil war in the nineteenth-century Western world.
Jasper Heinzen is a lecturer in modern European history at the University of York, having taught before at the Universität Bern, Switzerland. He has published on the Second German Empire, European international relations and the place of the Napoleonic Wars in European collective memory, and is currently writing a book about the use of honour codes as a transnational medium of communication among prisoners of war in the nineteenth century. His work has been awarded the Prize for Best Dissertation on Lower Saxon History by the Historical Commission of Lower Saxony and Bremen, and the Royal Historical Society's Alexander Prize, and his research has been funded by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council and a Marie Curie Fellowship.
'Jasper Heinzen's book is an outstanding piece of work; innovative,
fresh, offering new questions, new answers and powerful new
arguments. He succeeds in communicating complex issues in an
accessible and lucid fashion that weaves a consistent concern for
argument and analysis together with the need to illustrate and
describe issues. Historians of identity, education, gender and
memory, as well as those working on the genesis of national
identities in other nineteenth-century states, will find much here
to interest them.' Frank Lorenz Müller, University of St Andrews,
Scotland
'Making Prussians, Raising Germans is a stimulating read. It sets a
new standard for thinking about Prussian/Imperial German relations.
It will prove valuable to advanced students of modern German
history, both for its arguments and its very good bibliography in
four languages.' William W. Hagen, University of California,
Davis
'This original and stimulating book offers readers a welcome
opportunity to rethink the connections between civil war and
state-building. It focuses initially on the provinces annexed by
Prussia after the 'German War' of 1866, but it quickly broadens out
to an ambitious reconsideration of localism, federalism and
nationalism in modern Germany history. Striking international
comparisons enliven every chapter, encouraging readers to revisit
the central problems of conflict and cohesion over seven decades of
tumultuous German development. Highly recommended.' James
Retallack, University of Toronto
'Treating the war of 1866 between Prussia and Austria as a German
civil war, Jasper Heinzen has written an ambitious, well-researched
and innovative cultural history of modern Germany. Drawing on a
series of detailed observations to substantiate his larger points,
he uses comparison to highly illuminating effect. It is to be hoped
that the challenge his monograph poses to much existing
historiography in its field will enliven the debate - not only on
the evolution of the state and civil society in Germany between
1866 and the inter-war period, but also on the wider dialectics of
warfare and nationhood, cultural memory, print culture, education
and gender relations.' Oliver Zimmer, University College,
University of Oxford
'… a valuable and thought-provoking addition to the existing
historiography on Teutonic state-building during this period, and
Heinzen's genuinely comparative approach will also broaden the
book's appeal well beyond the confines of German history' Helen
Roche, German History
'Heinzen's book represents an important and original contribution
to historians' continuing efforts to rethink continuities and
comparisons in German history and to locate that history in a wider
transnational context.' David E. Barclay, The Journal of Modern
History
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